We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with …

decisions of 109 electricity distribution companies operating in Germany in 2006-2012. We hypothesize that Germany … comprehensive assessment of Germany's electricity distribution companies' investment decisions and behaviors should account for firm …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

companies in Germany (1990-2004). We apply both deterministic data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrapping to test the …